Paul Revere warned the British? 3 More Palin Gaffes

Katie Couric: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for [the McCain ticket] to stay informed?
Palin: I read most of them, with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Katie Couric: What specifically, I’m curious, did you read?
Palin: All of them, any of them, that have been in front of me over all these years.
Katie Couric: Can you name any of them?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaskan isn’t a foreign country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go38MgZ4w8 Photo: Reuters

[Couric and Palin were talking about John McCain’s promise to regulate Wall Street and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac].
Katie Couric: [John McCain] has been in Congress for 26 years…Almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: He’s known as a maverick though.
Katie Couric: I’m just going to ask one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulations.
Palin: I’ll try to find some and bring it to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4&feature=relmfu (begins at 2:22 minutes) Photo: Reuters

[Couric and Palin were talking about Roe v. Wade, which Palin disagreed with].
Katie Couric: What other Supreme Court decision do you agree with?
Palin: Mmm… Well, let’s see. Of course, in the great history of America there have been rulings, there’s not going to be absolute consensus by every American. There are issues like Roe v. Wade, where I believe it’s best to be addressed on the state level. Going through the history of America, there would be others.
Katie Couric: Can you think of any?
Palin: Any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level, maybe I would take issue with. As a mayor and governor, even as a vice president if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position to change those things, but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4&feature=relmfu Photo: Reuters

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Sarah Palin claimed last week that Paul Revere was “he who warned the British.” But as any American 1st grader will know, Revere was he who warned the colonists, specifically Samuel Adams and John Hancock.

Palin’s camp, however, immediately dug up an obscure historic reference – one that no one talked about before her gaffe – to support her botched account of Revere.Palin herself also insisted that she didn’t err and that Revere did indeed “warn the British.”

Her story, however, doesn’t add up.

While Revere did tell British authorities about the colonial resistance, he wasn’t “warning” them.“Threatening” and “bluffing” are more appropriate terms.Moreover, Palin is no Paul Revere scholar.

She wasn’t speaking at some US history convention to discuss obscure facts about the American Revolution.Instead, everything about the context of her words suggests she was shooting for Paul Revere’s famed midnight ride to Lexington to warn the colonists, which she badly botched.

Palin has a history of embarrassing herself.They’re not just simple gaffes, like Joe Biden’s statement that “j-o-b-s” is a three-letter word or Barack Obama’s promise to fight the “rise of privacy.”

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